Unimpressed with netflix canada - other sites out there for streaming?

Unimpressed with netflix canada - other sites out there for streaming?

We are ready to cancel our shaw, and took a look at netflix.. the interface and ease of it all seems very good and simple, however the selection is lacking imo, and much of the stuff we like to watch is nowhere to be found...

what are some other sites (if any), that will stream movies/tv shows to you that are legal (have all their rights in place), have a solid selection

i'm not necessarily looking for 'free'... i'm kind of getting to the point where i'll pay to have the better quality/sound

If you have a console thats what my method does.

The Megavideo script is an HD stream but you do need to pay for it.

Not only is it HD I find its the most reliable with buffering and not stalling out.

PlayOn can be downloaded as a free 14 day trial. I suggest installing it on your computer running it. Searching the media server on your console and testing it out. I also strongly suggest the Megavideo sub. There are free links on PlayOn but rarely are they HD and some have some buffering issues.

This. Playon + PS3 is epic, I just don't want to pay money for it. But yeah the playon scripts some of them have thousands of TV shows and often times a lot of them stream sports games too, much better than the way they stream them over on myp2p etc also. Much better streams usually and much less lag.

I stopped using it after the 14 day trial, I have cable pay very little for it and am happy getting my habs games.

But try the trial, you won't be disappointed. Any American should buy this software, cause it allows you to stream all those sites like Hulu, MLB, NHL network, and even the ones like Tv-links all for 20$ period, in pretty good quality, and often times they even offer you multiple feeds for the same thing. (To the PS3/360 and is organized in such an easy way, no need to browse to the site in the ugly PS3 browser LOL)

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Originally Posted by Towers

But it doesn't stream to the PS3. My method does that.

I don't want to hook my PC up to my TV.

To the OP, listen to this person. PlayOn is bad ass. You won't regret spending the 20$. Only reason I don't is cause I already have cable, but you can try it for 14 days anyways so what's the harm? Just get all the scripts you can find, there's also a site called playon plugins (there are plugins as well as scripts) and that site has forums where more scripts/plugins are linked/posted.

Do your digging, get the right ones, and you're going to see playon for a Canadian is pretty damn good. It's like ghetto hulu with an improved version of ADTHE or Myp2p imo. That's the only down side for me is that I don't get those streams anymore, I think they even had UFC

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Originally Posted by Towers

If you have a console thats what my method does.

The Megavideo script is an HD stream but you do need to pay for it.

Not only is it HD I find its the most reliable with buffering and not stalling out.

PlayOn can be downloaded as a free 14 day trial. I suggest installing it on your computer running it. Searching the media server on your console and testing it out. I also strongly suggest the Megavideo sub. There are free links on PlayOn but rarely are they HD and some have some buffering issues.

Shows are usually updated within a day or two of being aired.

Depends on what your needs are really. Check if the tv-links one has all the shows you like and has multiple feeds first. You are right about the stalling/buffering issues, but in my experiences at least with most of the shows I enjoy watching, there were always enough alternatives and at worst I could use megavideo when there weren't any. I would pick the megavideo option of TVLINKS as the last resort this way I don't use up my megavideo time but I still get to see the shows I want.

I never ended up screwed out of seeing an episode I wanted to see, but I can imagine for some shows it could be the case. The megavideo subscription is definitely worth looking into, but it might not be worth the 15/month depending on ones needs.

To the OP: Playon allows you to enter your hulu, megavideo, etc subscriptions into it by using addons, scripts or even in some cases it comes built in. It also allows you to add media already existing on your machine and if I'm not mistaking transcodes it over to your PC.

You just go to your Video section on the PS3, select PlayOn, then you'd see "Hulu, NHL, TVLinks, etc" and say you browse to Hulu, it would then say "TV Shows, Movies, etc" you select TV Shows, A B C D etc.

I have a premium sub to Megavideo and in the 4 months I've used it I have NEVER run out of Megavideo time. I use it everyday for at least 2 hours.

Man I wish we had Hulu and all that other stuff in Canada.

Same here. What I meant is without the account you can still watch vids just with limited time per day. If he watches shows that have alternate streams and only requires megavideo for an hour a day max when an episode doesn't work here or there, then paying for megavideo could potentially be a waste of money.

Same here. What I meant is without the account you can still watch vids just with limited time per day. If he watches shows that have alternate streams and only requires megavideo for an hour a day max when an episode doesn't work here or there, then paying for megavideo could potentially be a waste of money.

You basically had to go through the most backwards ass way of finding them, you had to browse like every folder, but they did have all the NHL streams often time 3-4 of each game some of which streamed in perfect quality, almost as if you were watching it directly from the channel. It wasn't the regular ones though that are hit or miss, these ones were actually good and I can't remember not getting a game if it was available online. Sometimes the feed will be miss, but out of the minimum 2 choices usually one was good.

You basically had to go through the most backwards ass way of finding them, you had to browse like every folder, but they did have all the NHL streams often time 3-4 of each game some of which streamed in perfect quality, almost as if you were watching it directly from the channel. It wasn't the regular ones though that are hit or miss, these ones were actually good and I can't remember not getting a game if it was available online. Sometimes the feed will be miss, but out of the minimum 2 choices usually one was good.